Nasca
Effigy frog bottle
Nasca, 2000
Physical Qualities
Earthenware, polychrome, 6 1/8 × 4 7/16 × 4 15/16 in. (15.5 × 11.2 × 12.5 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Alan Wurtzburger
Object Number
1960.30.95
Early Nazca ovoid vessel with small bridge handle attached to narrow spout. The vessel is painted to depict a frog: the striped (red, orange, grey, white) back of the frog is shown on the spout side of the vessel. Crouching limbs (red against white) are shown on the opposite side.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Myths of Ancient Peru," October 7- 30, 1969.
"The Wurtzburger Collection Pre-Columbian Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1958, fig. 95
"Myths of Ancient Peru," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1969, cat. no. 41.
Markings: Small label on bottom "Mathias Komor Works of Art, NY."
